Born 12/07/69, in Leoben, Austria
Based in Liverpool since 1996, works as a musical director, composer, producer, performer and researcher
Education: PhD, 'Inventing Hypercomposition', Director of Studies: Prof. Colin Fallows, Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, expected date of submission: December 2008
BA (Hons) in Performing Arts (Music), 1998, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts
Magister Artium (Master of Arts) with unanimous distinction in Composition and Composition for the Media, with Klaus-Peter Sattler, 1996, Vienna University of Music
Expertise as Musical Director: Vergil began his career as a musical director in 1987, working as an assistant to Hans Peter Jillich, conductor of the Stadtorchester, the symphony orchestra in Leoben, Austria. From 1988 until 1989 he also held the office of conductor of the chorus of the Lutheran Church in Leoben.
As part of his studies at the University of Music in Vienna, he was educated in ensemble conducting by Prof. Peter Burwik, as well as choir conducting. Whilst he lived in Vienna he led his own ensembles, The Rocco Granata Anniversary Orchestra, and Ensemble Penelope Danza, performing in Austria and Eastern Europe.
Vergil continued his education as a musical director at LIPA, the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, enrolling on the Musical Director module in his final year of study. Since graduating in 1998 Vergil has been directing and performing music in a variety of different contexts, and worked with musicians from very different backgrounds.
Musicians / ensembles he has worked with include:
Lukas Ligeti (New York), Philip Jeck (Liverpool, UK), Notabu Ensemble (Düsseldorf, Germany), Andrea Rost (Budapest, Hungary), NRK Kringkastingsorkestret (Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo, Norway), Parvinder Bharat (Wolverhampton, UK), Royal Liverpool Orchestra and Choir (UK), Harpreet Singh (Telford, UK), Susan Fancher (Durham, USA), Mark Engebretson (Greensboro, USA), Wendé K. Blass (Burkina Faso) and Hervé Blé Yao (Côte d'Ivoire), Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert (Vienna Austria), Renald Deppe and Capella Con Durezza (Vienna, Austria), Koehne Quartet (Vienna, Austria), Kombinat M (Vienna, Austria / New York), and many more.
Other Areas of Expertise: Composition
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Vergil has received a thorough education in the development of composition in western music at the Vienna University of Music, ranging from the counterpoint of Renaissance vocal music to the music of the late 20th century.
His own compositional style is influenced by a wide range of influences concerning aesthetic and style, concepts of performance and presentation, and music production in the recording studio, and has reached a focus in his invention of hypercomposition, a composition technique he has developed as part of a programme of study for PhD.
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